Richard Quan, MD

Clinical Professor
Pediatrics

Richard Quan, M.D.
Clinical Professor, UCSF

Richard Quan, M.D. is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Gastroenterology.

He earned his medical degree from the University of South Alabama, College of Medicine. He completed his Pediatric Residency at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. He trained at Stanford University in Pediatric Gastroenterology/Nutrition and did a postdoctoral fellowship conducting research in Gastroenterology.

He has held academic positions at the University of Texas, Southwestern, the University of Nevada, the University of California-Davis, the Medical University of South Carolina, and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He was a medical officer at the Food and Drug Administration in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, assisting in the regulation of infant formula and other products. He has many years of clinical experience in private practice and he seeks to pass his knowledge and experience to the next generation of pediatricians.

Publications: 

Intestinal lactase in the neonatal rat. Maturational changes in intracellular processing and brush-border degradation.

The Journal of biological chemistry

Castillo RO, Reisenauer AM, Kwong LK, Tsuboi KK, Quan R, Gray GM

An inborn error of bile salt transport with features mimicking abusive head trauma. Child Abuse Negl. 2010; 34 (7): 472-476

Hendrickson DJ, Knisely AS, Coulter K, Telander DG, Quan R, Ruebner BH, Leigh MJ.